A sail-together of tall ships from Kochi to Muscat—that’s 1200 nautical miles—and back, trying to retrace the ancient maritime trade route between the Malabar Coast and the Persian Gulf. As part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), India’s Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and his Iranian counterpart Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi flagged off the event from Kochi on November 14. One Omani vessel, two Indian naval ships and a ‘sea rider’ each from China, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Australia, Bangladesh and Maldives are part of this maritime venture.
Disruptive promise of and June 12th US ban on Mythos shook the world. There are competing AI visions - Krishna vs Clarke. Convergence of Quantum, AGI/ASI and Crypto may unprecedentedly destroy our world if not enslave humanity.
Musk promises abundance for all. A Scottish earl explained 200 years ago why the machines that make everything will make their owners richer than ever, and everyone else dependent. The real question was never the size of your ration. It is who owns the river, and who holds the rod above him.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
